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09/24/2004:

"US senate backs US$75 million for Africa troops in Sudan"

The United States senate has backed a measure that would provide an emergency US$75 million ($114.2 million) to finance efforts by African Union troops to try and restore peace in Sudan.

The senate adopted the amendment, which depends on US president George W Bush asking for the money, to its version of a spending bill funding US foreign aid programmes in 2005. The senate easily passed the US$19.5 billion bill.

Full Article : nzherald.co.nz